Preliminary estimates found that filling in the interstate trench would cost $2.4 billion to $3.2 billion, compared to $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion to reconfigure the freeway within its existing footprint.
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Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
17 Jan. 2025
In the photo, there's a line around the moon's equator that resembles the equatorial trench around the Death Star.
Those embers can ride high winds for multiple miles to nestle in dry leaves or pine needles clogging a gutter, a wood-shingle roof, or shrubs, trees and other flammable vegetation close to a structure.
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Justin Angle,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2025
Once one house starts—with a spark that catches on dry leaves in a rain gutter or drifts into an attic through a vent—the fire spreads house to house.
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